Hey I have my Andromeda A6 ten years now and all is well touch wood (or so i thought)

During the time that I have had the A6 I found myself using it less and less over the years while also falling into the world of VSTi's.. now I've read some complaints before about the Andromeda sounding digital or thin and I did somewhat agree because I was using VSTi's that were to my ears starting to sound better than the Andromeda.. anyway between moving house and other things it was boxed up and put under the bed for a long time basically idle and I even contemplated selling it and placed an advert at one stage..

Now the first time I upgraded the OS was some years ago.. I wasn't very tech savvy at the time with computers then and having no midi-to-usb cable I used a hardware sequencer to do a sysex dump to v1.40.12 and try out some new presets.. well whatever way I did that at the time I noticed that the arp sequencer note data was wiped out and the arp sequencer wouldn't switch on in fact but with all the user presets around the web I just took this as part of the process in losing the internal factory data and replacing it with something else.. because a lot of initialized patches were in there too.

Well anyway, I never got a chance to sort this out.. so tonight I just re-installed OS v1.40.12 using Bome's SendSX all went well until the A6 hung on the final filter tuning calibration after the sysex dump, so leaving it awhile I decided to switch it off and back on again as you do ..and a very strange thing happened.. the A6 suddenly sounded perfect?? I mean it sounded bloody fantastic! squealing and squelchy, the pitch envelope seemed to be sounding better like it never had before.. because before that it was very stepped sounding almost like an 8bit commodore sound so wtf? I'm really pleased about this because this was the biggest gripe that I had with the A6! I always took this as just the way it is because of all this talk about digital envelopes.. I thought that the programmers cut the pitched data down for speed or maybe used a stepped midi 0-127 way to control them.. to save on the processor.. even the osc's seem less distorted now too.. so after being amazed for a bit and fiddling around I then found out that the filter knobs were not working, nothing responsive at all.. the filters where active but not sounding correctly except that by hitting the bypass switch it brought up the volume a bit and brought some patches back to sounding more fuller.. (like the filter was stuck on a permanent open hipass for some patches..) I googled around and found another sysex utility midi-ox and did a second dump with the OS and this time it went in flawlessly.. and then while googling around I found some posts with people talking about OS v1.40.13!? so for the third try I installed that and now everything is working great and I'm really happy now with the A6!

so here's my theory!

I think that the very first sysex dump I did years back didnt go in right.. and the hardware sequencer that I used at the time is known to be a bit dodgy on timing issues plus it doesn't have much space for midi data.. (Yamaha EX5R) so I think that a lot of the digital control was messed up on my A6 leaving it sounding less than it should have.. because now I'm definitely not selling this beast! I'm very very happy with the sound of this and I hope to be using it a lot more now because after many years with VST's to actually hear this A6 scream and play pads like does now is really an eye opener for me. There are some great VSTi's out there but damn the A6 has them beat.

The final thing now is experiment with the expert sleepers application through cv because I heard you can get near audio accurate timing on that without any midi jitter.

i've had those problems ( freezing displaypartly or whole )with every version, but only after/ during excessive editting/ charging the processor to the max so to speak
no difference in that respect with the different software versions, so just kept using the latest version .
a simple restart mostly solved the problem.
on normal use/ playing for hours i have no problems with whatever version
maybe this might be of help

Yeah -- I've seemed to notice similar things. Only when there's tons of processing, and it's quite heated up (4+ Hours). However, my andy's never ever acted up on the .12 OS -- even after extended use. So Im lead to believe it has something to do with the .13 OS. I will post back here if I ever experience the above mentioned problems with the .12 OS.

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